]]>By: Ronaldhttp://oracle-base.com/blog/2010/08/19/more-copyright-theft/comment-page-1/#comment-126898
Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:10:30 +0000http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/?p=1461#comment-126898Hi Tim,
copying a blog is one thing, copying software and books is about the same. As a book author, you could be a millionaire if you got the regular fee for every pirated copy of the books you wrote.

Too bad that this is not the case so we still have to buy our boats at . They are really fun to have in bath.

Point is that some of us put a lot of energy and expensive – private – time in those articles and books. Some others use their time to make quick copies of it and even make money out of that.

The effect could very well be that no one is going to take the time to make those useful publications any more, leaving the community in the cold. Original content with original views and opinions are important to have, assuming that they are correct.

R.

]]>By: Tim...http://oracle-base.com/blog/2010/08/19/more-copyright-theft/comment-page-1/#comment-126893
Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:16:51 +0000http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/?p=1461#comment-126893I think you have missed the point. If I take Tom Kytes latest book, scan it and publish it on Lulu under my own name with a credit on the first page saying, “Thanks Tom for your work.” would you consider that fair?

The point is, my article is available for everyone to read and use on my website. You are free to write your own on the same subject. You are not free to copy my article and change the screen grabs and call it your own.

You are also free to post a link to my article, then write a, “these are the things that are wrong or missing from Tim’s article”, if you feel the need. People may find that useful. It is the wholescale copyinh of copyright content that is the issue.

Fair use policy and derivative works policy are covered specifically in the DMCA rules.

If you had provided a picture of you on the john I would have put it in the Data Guard post. Anyway, your valuable prose would still be there to guide in the cobweb of darkness as it still is your work.

Cheers,

GNJ

]]>By: Tim...http://oracle-base.com/blog/2010/08/19/more-copyright-theft/comment-page-1/#comment-126826
Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:27:20 +0000http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/?p=1461#comment-126826Amit: This is not a “call to arms” If you want to take action it’s pretty simple to follow the guidelines set out in that link I posted.

Laurent: It calls into question everything the guy has ever published. I feel sorry for his publisher, collaborators and employer, whose reputations can be affected by these sort of actions. I would never employ him, or a company that employs him.

Cheers

Tim…

]]>By: Laurent Schneiderhttp://oracle-base.com/blog/2010/08/19/more-copyright-theft/comment-page-1/#comment-126823
Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:53:50 +0000http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/?p=1461#comment-126823If this guy stole your content in his blog, I wonder how much content he did stole to write his book !

Your post is a serious treat to his blog, one may prefer tarring and feathering

]]>By: amanhttp://oracle-base.com/blog/2010/08/19/more-copyright-theft/comment-page-1/#comment-126822
Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:50:36 +0000http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/?p=1461#comment-126822OKay, I hope I am wrong(I guess not) but is this the same guy?https://www.packtpub.com/authors/profiles/guenadi-jilevski

If yes, its just so bad and after reading the comments on Teymur’s blog, the way he has responded about the whole thing, nothing much seems to be left to comment about it! Bad, really a bad act!